Chargepod

An EV charging station must be placed every 3 kilometers in cities and every 25 kilometers on both sides of roads, according to the governments infrastructure regulations.

Every 100 kilometers on both sides of the highway, a charging station for long-range and heavy-duty vehicles should be located (mostly Highways). In addition, to boost industrial transportation, India is building an electric highway connecting Delhi and Mumbai.

We are now nowhere near meeting the requirement (because to the scarcity of EV charging stations in India), and we can see that charging stations are desperately needed.

The demand in major cities such as Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Pune is immense. The ministry has planned that charging stations should be in an area of 33 km grid with increased focus on nine mega cities (with population of over 4 million).

There has been additional installation of 678 public EV charging stations between October 2021 to January 2022 in these 9 cities, which is about 2.5 times of the earlier numbers. During the same period, about 1.8 lakh new electric vehicles, it added.